Ximenes Competition No. 263 Ximenes Slip | ◀ 261 | 265 ▶ | Other competitions
| No. | Date | Clue word | Clue type | Clues |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 263 | Xmas 1953 | We think so then and we thought so still! | Anagram | 22 |
| Award | Clue writer | Clue | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| First | Brig W. E. Duncan | That Owl, winking, hoots: “He! He! Ted L.’s nuts!” | Ted L. = Edward Lear |
| Second | E. Sunderland | What we, Dell’s kin, sing to the hot, hot sun | |
| Third | Lt Col P. S. Baines | Wet hosts—should know the Nile at night | |
| HC | A. Aaron | “The Dong’ll sink with that nose” we shout | |
| HC | S. Doidge | We show loud thanks to the “silent night” | |
| HC | W. J. Duffin | How stalks the Dong with The Nose unlit? | |
| HC | W. Eite | What hint to lost who seeks light? Dunne? | J. W. D., ‘An Experiment with Time’ |
| HC | J. A. Fincken | Do we tell Hunt what shook this Tensing? | Holman Hunt, friend of E. Lear, and Everest |
| HC | Mrs N. Fisher | Who taught Nile host tenses? L. doth wink! | |
| HC | S. Goldie | Who knows not that the Nile delights us? | |
| HC | S. B. Green | “Silent night”? We two thus shook the land! | |
| HC | T. E. S. Jobson | Song ends thus—with hot walk to Nile? | |
| HC | L. Johnson | Len Hutton’s high hits won’t do last week! | cricket |
| HC | A. F. Lerrigo | We laugh (not loth to) when Ned’s skittish | Ned = Edward Lear |
| HC | J. P. Lloyd | How Dell’s won—“Taste thou,” hints the King | |
| HC | T. W. Melluish | “Look,” I told Hunt, “shews the Tensing, what?” | Holman Hunt, friend of E. Lear, and Everest |
| HC | S. L. Paton | Hit news—Dell has IT! (Oughtn’t she to know?) | |
| HC | Capt W. H. W. Ridley | Hell knows who taught this tense—I don’t! | |
| HC | W. K. M. Slimmings | Tosh? Whew, I think that old E. L.’s gone nuts! | |
| HC | T. L. Strange | We should think Hottentot was English! | |
| HC | J. A. L. Sturrock | Has lilt, wit, though don’t know the sense | |
| HC | C. T. Tulloch | The old Sun—she winks at the Owl to-night | with suggested transposition of “Sun” and “Owl” |
Runners-Up in competition 263: